Cider Digest #0613

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Subject: Cider Digest #613, 18 September 1996 
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Cider Digest #613                                         18 September 1996 

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                      Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor 

Contents: 
  digest returns... (Cider Digest) 
  Hydraulic Cider Press (Kathy Hutchins) 
  Sweet Cider (TERESA M PAESCHKE) 
  Cider is clear bottles (Brian Black) 
   (Brian Black) 
  articles on cider growing and making (Andrew LEA) 

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Subject: digest returns... 
From: cider@raven.talisman.com (Cider Digest) 
Date: 18 Sep 96 07:51:04 MDT (Wed) 

I thought I'd had the digest set to send an issue automatically while I was 
gone.  Seems I set things up but didn't activate them.  Sorry for the delay 
since the last digest. 

There is some halfway-plausible excuse--I was off in England drinking...er, 
tasting...cider, plus visiting the Cider and Perry Festival at Brogdale, 
about which I hope to write here soon. 

We now return you to your irregularly scheduled broadcast... 
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Cider Digest                                  cider-request@talisman.com 
Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor                  Boulder County, Colorado  USA 

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Subject: Hydraulic Cider Press 
From: Kathy Hutchins <KHUTCHINS@VAX1.IUPUI.EDU> 
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 9:17:52 -0500 (EST) 

Michael Gerholdt <gerholdt@ait.fredonia.edu> writes: 

> I have a vertical hydraulic log splitter that sits behind a tractor. 

> Seems like it would be very easy to develop a press that uses this for 
> pressure. Anyone done anything of the sort or have plans for such a thing? 

I have no idea, and I'm not clever about this sort of thing, 
but I have a horizontal log splitter that runs off 
the hydraulics on my tractor (an ancient but faithful Ford 
801), and would love to see any information you get about using  
such a thing to power a cider press. 

Kathy Hutchins 
khutchins@vax1.iupui.edu 

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Subject: Sweet Cider 
From: paeschke@ix.netcom.com (TERESA M PAESCHKE) 
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 13:43:26 -0700 

Hi All 
Pickleman asked about an herb called Stivia for possible use in  
sweetening cider.  Stevia rebaudiana is a native of Paraguay.  
Stevioside is found in the leaves and stems of this plant and is 300x  
as sweet as cane sugar according to the Merck Index.  It has been used  
as a non-nutrative sweetener in Japan, South Korea and Brazil for years  
but has not been approved for use in the US. Use of the herb is,I  
believe, not regulated as the pure substance seems to be here in the  
States.  The Merck makes mention of B linkages so I can assume that it  
is not fermentable.  I've never tried the herb or the active stuff  
myself but it seems like a good possible candidate from here. 
Coincidentally,  I heard an NPR broadcast with Scott Simon a few weeks  
ago concerning this very critter. 
Cheers! 
  --Steve 
  

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Subject: Cider is clear bottles 
From: Brian Black <b.black@worldnet.att.net> 
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:41:55 +0000 

Has there been any evidence of clear bottles harming cider? I understand 
that Seven Sisters uses/has used, and I am looking for technical info on 
this. Any ideas? 

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Subject:  
From: Brian Black <b.black@worldnet.att.net> 
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 20:45:32 +0000 

Whoops, one more thing. From whom did you get that info - you mentioned an 
ag station in England, I believe. Tell me more if you would, this is 
interesting. 

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Subject: articles on cider growing and making 
From: Andrew LEA <101750.3071@compuserve.com> 
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 02:48:58 -0400 

I'm a biochemist and hobby cider maker in the south of England. Some years 
ago I wrote a series of six articles on small-scale cidermaking for a UK 
hobby magazine called Home Farm.  Since this didn't  have a very wide 
circulation, and the copyright in the articles is mine, I've put them on 
the Net.  You can get at them via my home page at  

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/andrew_lea 

Hope some people out there might find them useful! 

Andrew Lea 

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